Small photograph of Teddy Goldsmith by Oliver Tickell. Licenced for general reproduction with attribution and link / reference to this website.

Large photograph of Teddy Goldsmith by Oliver Tickell. Licenced for general reproduction with attribution and link / reference to this website.

Welcome...

Teddy Goldsmith passed away on 21 August 2009. Our work in building this archive continues thanks to the unfailing commitment of Teddy's family to his ideas and ideals. Obituaries etc are to be found here.

As well as the longer articles on Teddy, we are compiling a collection of Memories of Teddy from his friends and colleagues. To contribute please .

Welcome to edwardgoldsmith.org. This website has been created in order to publish the large number of articles, essays, reviews and other writings of Edward Goldsmith (widely known as 'Teddy'), founder of The Ecologist magazine in 1970, and author of numerous books including The Great U-Turn (1988), The Stable Society (1978), and his great philosophical discourse The Way: towards an ecological world view (1998).

A Blueprint for Survival book cover shot

A Blueprint for Survival Ecologist cover shot

We recently added the entire text of A Blueprint for Survival, published as a special issue of The Ecologist in January 1972, shortly in advance of the Stockholm environment summit. This seminal work, in effect setting out the path towards a stable and sustainable society, rapidly sold out and was republished later that year in paperback by Penguin.

At time of writing (September 2009) the website contains approaching 400 pages, ranging from recent lectures and The Ecologist articles to entire chapters from books (some recently published, others long out-of-print), book reviews, cover images, letters and interviews.

Cover of The Social and Environmental Effects of Large Dams

New pages are being added all the time, so if you cannot find what you are looking for now, do come back later and try again. Further recent additions include chapters contributed by Teddy to Can Britain Survive? (1971) Green Britain or Industrial Wasteland (1988), from The Social and Environmental Effects of Large Dams - Overview (1984), and The Case Against the Global Economy ().

The Case Against the Global Economy - cover picture

Please also take a look at the links page, which points to numerous web resources about or relating to Edward Goldsmith.

Please click on any of the keywords above for a list of articles relevant to the listed themes. Alternatively, use the search facilities available from the menu to enter your own search terms or dates.

French readers ...

A smaller (but growing) number of Teddy's articles are also available in French on a separate website: www.teddygoldsmith.org. This includes a selection of chapters from Le Tao de l'écologie : une vision écologique du monde (2002), the French translation of The Way.

Italian readers ...

An even smaller (but also growing) number of Teddy's articles and chapters from books are also available in Italian on a separate website: www.teddygoldsmith.com.

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